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My Experience and Thoughts on Longhorn

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I touched on Longhorn in https://qtosw.com/2021/my-kubernetes-cluster-experience/ but it’s worth digging into further because the concept is really cool.

Longhorn works by having nodes with stora...

My Kubernetes Cluster Experience

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(Links to code for my environment at the bottom)

I didn’t like how my main unRAID server was a single point of failure, so I set out to make a Kubernetes cluster. Initially I used Rancher to crea...

Wrestling with Kube-Proxy on Ubuntu 20.04.1

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I recently spun up a couple hosts as Kubernetes workers and interestingly, one of them worked fine but the other would not resolve kube-dns queries. On the node itself, running this command would f...

Getting a B NAT Type on the Nintendo Switch using OPNSense

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This one caused many hours of befuddlement. I have a router running OPNSense and a Nintendo Switch, but without any modifications to my network, I get a D on NAT Type on my connection tests. I must...

unRAID and How I Do Things

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I recently started using unRAID for my server at home, and I figured I’d do a rough write-up of how I configured mine and some design decisions I made along the way.

What is unRAID?

For the uni...